Nerd
orang yang sangat intelektual, obsesif, dan jauh dari kehidupan sosial, sering melakukan aktivitas yang berhubungan dengan komputasi dan ilmu pengetahuan
Nerd adalah seseorang yang dipandang sangat intelektual, obsesif, atau kurang keterampilan sosial. Orang semacam itu mengisi waktunya untuk kegiatan tak populer, sedikit diketahui, atau non-umum, yang biasanya sangat teknis, abstrak, atau berkaitan dengan topik fiksi atau fantasi, dengan pengecualian kegiatan yang lebih umum.[1][2][3] Selain itu, beberapa orang yang disebut nerd dideskripsikan pemalu, pendiam, penyendiri dan kurang atraktif,[4] dan memiliki kesulitan dalam ikut, atau bahkan mengikut, olahraga.
Referensi
- ^ "Nerd | Define Nerd at Dictionary.com", "Dictionary.com, LLC" 2011, accessed May 13, 2011.
- ^ nerd, n. Oxford English Dictionary online. Third edition, September 2003; online version September 2011. First included in Oxford English Dictionary second edition, 1989.
- ^ "Definition of NERD", Merriam-Webster, 2011, diakses tanggal 2011-11-23
- ^ DA Kinney (1993). "From nerds to normals: The recovery of identity among adolescents from middle school to high school". Sociology of Education. Sociology of Education. 66 (1): 21–40. doi:10.2307/2112783. JSTOR 2112783.
Bacaan tambahan
- Bucholtz, Mary (1999). "'Why be normal?': Language and identity practices in a community of nerd girls". Language in Society. 28: 203–23. doi:10.1017/s0047404599002043.
- Frayling, Christopher (2005). Mad, Bad And Dangerous?: The Scientist and the Cinema. Reaktion Books.
- Genuine Nerd (2006) – Feature-length documentary on Toby Radloff.
- Kendall, Lori (1999). "'The Nerd Within': Mass Media and the Negotiation of Identity Among Computer-Using Men". The Journal of Men's Studies. 7 (3): 353–69.
- ——— (1999). "Nerd Nation: Images of Nerds in U.S. Popular Culture". International Journal of Cultural Studies. 2 (2): 260–83. doi:10.1177/136787799900200206.
- ——— (2000). "'Oh No! I'm a Nerd!': Hegemonic Masculinity on an Online Forum". Gender & Society. 14 (2): 256–74. doi:10.1177/089124300014002003.
- Newitz, A. & Anders, C. (Eds) She's Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff. Seal Press, 2006.
- Nugent, Benjamin (2008). American Nerd: The Story of My People. New York: Scribner. ISBN 978-0-7432-8801-9.
- Okada, Toshio (1996), Otaku Gaku Nyumon (dalam bahasa Jepang), Tokyo: Ohta Verlag .
Pranala luar
Lihat entri nerd di kamus bebas Wiktionary.
- "The Well-Dressed Geek: Media Appropriation and Subcultural Style" (Paper by Jason Tocci presented at the MIT5 conference. PDF, 180kb).
- Media in Transition 5
- "Why Nerds are Unpopular", an essay by Paul Graham about the conformist society in American high schools.
- "The Nerds Have Won", an article by Brian Hayes in American Scientist, September–October 2000.